Sunday, June 29, 2008

Died This Day: Thomas Huxley

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May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895 From the UC Berkeley Page : Huxley was born in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a family th...

Happy Birthday to Ray Harryhausen

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Visit Ray's official site . [ a palaeoblog autopost ]
Friday, June 27, 2008

Drumheller IGA T. rex Is Back

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The newly repainted T. rex has reappeared on the IGA here in Drumheller. I'm finishing up my week here at the RTMP editing the 'Hor...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Fedex Caveman

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This is old news now, but I just saw it thanks to Don C. and had to share it. I'm almost in the field....!
Friday, June 20, 2008

Off To The Field: Stay Tuned For Updates

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It's that time of year again gentle readers... I'm all packed... and off for another exciting summer of field work. What could possi...

New Discovery Proves Selfish Gene Exists

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Four QTLs that Influence Worker Sterility in the Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) . 2008. P.R. Oxley et al. Genetics Published Ahead of Print: J...

Indy Gets The Paper

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© Pete Von Sholly CLICK TO ENLARGE Apparently Pete Von Sholly did not think much of the latest Indy flick...

Gryposaurus: #2 With A Bullet

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Something called the “ International Institute for Species Exploration ” at Arizona State University has listed their top ten new species fo...

The Amphioxus Genome

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The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype . 2008. N. H. Putnam et al. Nature 453: 1064-1071. image The newly sequenc...
Monday, June 16, 2008

New Data On Psittacosaurus major

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New data on cranial anatomy of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus major . 2008. H.−L. You et al. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53: 183...

Born This Day: George Gaylord Simpson

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June 16, 1902 - Oct 6, 1984. "Life is the most important thing about the world, the most important thing about life is evolution. Thus...

Ebb & Flow of Seas Drives Mass Extinctions

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Environmental determinants of extinction selectivity in the fossil record . 2008. S. E. Peters. Nature advance online publication 15 June 20...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Megaraptor-like Ulna Found In Australia

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A Megaraptor -like theropod (Dinosauria: Tetanurae) in Australia: support for faunal exchange across eastern and western Gondwana in the Mid...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Earliest Genetic Material Come From The Stars

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Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite . 2008. Z.Martins et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Sunday 15 June 2008. ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

BC Dino May Be New Species

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An ornithischian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin, north-central British Columbia, Canada . 2008. V. Arbour and M.C. Graves. CJES 45: 457-463....
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Unraveling The Woolly Mammoth Genome

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Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes . 2008. M. Thomas et al. PNAS published...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

New Radioisotopic Date For The Two Medicine Formation

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Geochemical characterization of bentonite beds in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian, Montana), including a new 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age . 2008. ...

Happy Birthday: E.O. Wilson

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Wilson is an American biologist noted for founding the science of sociobiology. In his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) he argue...
Monday, June 09, 2008

Born This Day: WIlliam J. Arkell

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June 9, 1904 - April 18, 1958. From Today In Science History: Arkell was an English paleontologist who was an authority on Jurassic ammonite...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

245 Million Year Old Tetrapod Burrows Found In Antarctica

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Christian Sidor in Allan Hills, Antarctica, Jan. 2006. Cara Fritz/OSU For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of te...